Straw-stacker.



Patented Sept. I8, |900.

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STBAW STACKEB.

(Application filed Aug. 21, 1899.)

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PETER EOGEROE MARION, OHIO,

AssieNoR To EDWARD HUBER, or SAME PLACE. l

sTRAw-STACKER.

SPECIFICATION formingpat of Letters Patent No.5.8,Q02, dateldseptember 18, 1900. v Application ledAugustZ1,l899., $eria1No.f.728,000. (No model.)v

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PETER BooER,fa 'citi-Y zen of the United States; residing a'tMa/ribn,

in the county of Marion andSrae of'Oliio`, `Vl

have'invent-ed certain newf'and useful'Improvements inStraw-Stackers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to straw-stackers, and has for its object to provide an automaticoscillating stacker of simple construction and having fewer parts than those now in use, thus avoiding the necessity of employing a skilled mechanic to remedy .working defects while the same is being operated. This Object I accomplish in the manner and by the means hereinafter more fully described in detail, and particularly pointed outin the claims, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which like numerals .represent like parts in all of the figures.

Figure 1 is a top plan view of my invention. Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of same, partly in section; Fig. 3, a detail view of the wormgear; Fig. 4, a detail view of the guide or bracket and sliding journal-box, and Fig. 5 a detail view of the perforated rack and pinion.

A rectangular frame 1, of the usual form, having the stacker turn-table 2 mounted in the ordinary way at one end, has three crosspieces Satsuitableintervals. Theturn-table 2 is provided around its periphery with an angle-iron 4. A rack 5 has perforated ears 6*, adapted to receive and be secured to the angle-iron 4. Said rack 5 may be made in secdesired. Each end section of said rack 5 has a short distance beyond the pinion 10 and travelsin the groove l6 in passing from the upper to the lower side of the rack 5, or vice versa.

The other two cross-pieces 3 are connected intermediate the sides of the frame 1 by two 5o braces 11, separated by a suitable interval. The driving-shaft 12 is journaled on brackets tions, so that its length may be regulated as 13, mounted on the frame land on the endof one of the braces 11. The driving-shaft l2 is i provided at one end with the driving-wheel 14.

On thedriving-shaft 12, on each side of the ing5 termediate journal-bearing of said shaft l 2, is a sprocket-wheel '15. The shaft 9 passes bef neat'h thel driving-shaft 2 and is provided with a knuckle-joint l2*. A short shaft 17 Y has its ends journaled in brackets 18, moun-to ed on the ends of the braces ll. On the end of the shaft 9 is a worm -wheel 19, which meshes with a worm 20 on the shaft 17. Av

large sprocket-wheel 2l is mounted on the shaft 17 and connected by the chain 22with 65 one of the sprocket-Wheels 15. AThe other sprocket-wheel 15. is connected by a chain with the `sprocket-wheel 24, mounted onV one end of ashort shaft 25, journaled on'a bracket I 26, secured to a frame 27, extending across 7o the end of frame 1 below the turn-table 2 and supported by said frame 1. On the other end of the shaft 25 is mounted a bevel cog-wheel 28, which meshes with the lower cogs in a double-beveled cog-wheel 29, mounted on a vertical shaft 30, carried by frame 27. A horizontal shaft 3l is journaled in bearings secured to the under side of the upper crosspieces of frame 27a. Said shaft 3l has at its inner end a beveled-cog-wheel 32, which 8o meshes withthe upper oogs of the double-beveled cog-wheel 29, and at its outer end, which extends outside said frame 1, is provided with a sprocket-wheel 33, adapted to drive the web of the straw-stacker.

The operation of my invention is as follows: Power is applied to the driving-wheel 14 and transmitted by the shaft 12, sprocket wheel 15, and chain 22 to thelarge sprocketwheel 21. This revolves the shaft 17 and 9o worm 20, which through the worm-wheel 19 y turns the shaft 9. The pinion 10 travels along the rack 5, being guided from'the upper to the lower side of the rack 5 by the end of the shaft 9 entering and following the grooved 95 channel 6.v The change of the pinion 10 from the upper to the lower side of the rack, and vice versa, reverses the movement of the turn-table 2, causing it to oscillate back and forth. To regulate the distance the turnioo table 2 shall turn from side to side, the rack 5 is made iu adjustable sections, each end section being.,lr provided-with thegrooved same time through the other sprocket-wheel 15, chain 23, andsproeket-wheel24 communicates motion to the shaft 25 and the cog- Wheels 2S, 29, and 32 and through them to the shaft 31 and sprocket-wheel 33, which drives the web.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A straw-stacker comprising a turn=table adapted to move in a horizontal plane, a perf forated sectional rack mounted thereon,a vertically-adjinstable journal-box, a station` :try journal-box, a guide or bracket, a revoluble shaft made in sections, one of said sec? tions supported in the stationary journalbox, and the other section supported in the adjustable journal-box in the said guide or bracket, said shaft provided with a pinion adapted to engage the said rack, andmeans for operating" the said shaft and pinion, substantially as shown and described.

2. A straw-stacker Comprising a frame, a tu rn-table, a perforated sectional rack mounted thereon, a guide or bracket on said frame, a vertically-slidable journal-box carried by said guide, n stationaryjournal-box, a revoluble shaft made in sect-ions con nected together by a knuckle-joint, one section mounted in the stationary journal-box and its end having a Worm-gear thereon, and the other section mounted in the slidable journal-box, guides at the opposite ends ot' said rack in which the end of the said section is adapted to move, and means for operating the said straw-stacker, substantially as shown and described.

AstraW-staeker comprising,r a frame, a tu rn-table, a perforated sectional rack or plate mounted thereon, a sectional shaft provided With a pinion adapted to engage said perforated "rack, and the end of said shaft extending beyond said pinion, a guide at y each end of said rack for the purpose of guid' ing,r the said extended end of the shaft as the pinion moves around the end ot the rack while traveling from the upper to the lower surface of s aid rack, and means for operatingr said shaft and pinion, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I hereto aiiix my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

' PETER HOGER. Witnesses:

FRANK G. NORTON, JAMES G. FAIRBANKS. 

